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curl has timed downloads, unlike wget

curl has timed downloads, unlike wget

Posted May 18, 2006 21:05 UTC (Thu) by nealmcb (subscriber, #20740)
In reply to: A bloated script for time-scheduled audio stream recordings by scheck
Parent article: The Grumpy Editor's guide to audio stream grabbers

I've often wanted a timer for wget also. Then I learned that the popular 'curl' program and library has one....

curl -m 3600 -s -S -o $f $url


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